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Better user experience when asked to input frequency of periodic event
So I am working on a form and one of the inputs have proved in user-testing to be somewhat problematic:
We want to save the frequency of a periodic event, the event is how often a report is to be ...
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Will users understand this horizontal spin wheel below a number input field?
I have implemented a horizontal spin wheel as an additional method to input a number:
You can slide or scroll the measurement left or right and this will change the number in the input field directly ...
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UI for Inputting Numbers Efficiently
I am developing a web app that requires a lot of numeric adjustments to be done very quickly by a user.
Here is an example:
Possible Solution
The only reasonable suggestion I could come up with is ...
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Dealing with dozen digit number inputs
I am building a game that involves money. Users have money. Interactions can be as large as a trillion (1,000,000,000,000) or as small as a few thousand. Basically, users set the price of land they ...
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Is a decimal comma used in data entry?
Historically, I know that in most parts of the world decimals have been represented with a comma.
3.14 (US and Canada mostly)
3,14 (most other places)
In software development, normally a period (3....
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What is the term for a numeric input field of a specific format?
There are new HTML5 input types being defined for commonly used numeric input types such as date, time, telephone number, etc. These terms refer to a specific input format based on the type of numeric ...
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Entering order amount with clicks in a game
So there's this control in an RTS game that lets you set an order amount. Due to being in a fast-paced games' UI, we cannot afford "slow" numeric input, so clicks are preferred. We also have very ...
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Best way of making a credits transfer dialog
I am designing a dialog which would allow user to transfer credits from his account to "an object's account". Transfer is only in one direction -- after you confirm transfering credits to an object's ...
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What is the best way to input cm of body measures?
In my web application the user have to save their measures of the following parts of the body:
Head
Neck
Chest
Hip
Feet
The value stored in the database could store two decimals too.
So I thought in ...
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Numeric input - alternatives to slider / text field for mobile game?
For our game the player's occasionally required to enter numbers. Sometimes it's the number of units to buy and in that case typically a number between 1 and 10,000, other times it's goods to buy, in ...
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Integer input field: special case for unbounded / unlimited
I am developing a form where the user needs to enter the maximum number of allowed things. Zero is a legitimate value meaning that none are allowed.
I need to find a special value to indicate that ...
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Numeric data input in a web based scientific software
(Note: I'm more a backend developer, so please forgive my lack of UX terminologies. Don't hesitate to edit the text or the tags)
We are working on an online scientific software with specific ...
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